Check-row cord



( No Model.)

13.0. S-TOVER.

CHECK ROW 00m). No. 277,956. Patented May 22,1883.

WITNESSES: [NVEN TOR ZTTbR/VEY UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL O. STOVER, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

CHECK-ROW CORD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,956, dated May 22, 1883.

Application filed March 5, was. (No model.) i

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL G. STOVER, a resident of Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check- Bow Cords; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention is an improved check-row wire provided at regular intervals with stops of malleable metal. The form of the wire and of the stops, as well as the method in which they a are combined, is fully set outin the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 isa side elevation of the stop open for the reception of the wire; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the wire bent for insertion in the stop; Fig. 3, a side elevation of the open stop with the wire in place; Fig. 4, an end elevation of same; Fig. 5, an end elevation of the stop closed about the wire, and Fig. 6 a side elevation of same.

As shown in these drawings, the stop is a single thin piece of malleable metal bent to form two unequal flanges on opposite sides of a deep groove or slot, the bottom of the slot being cylindrical and of the same diameter as the wire to which the stop is to be attached. The shorter flange is provided with a central tongue, B, the metal being cut away on both sides of the tongue to form square shoulders, and the longer flange is recessed at its middle to correspond with the tongue on the shorter flange. At each point in the wire to which a stop is to be attached it is bent into a U at right angles to its length, the bend so formed constituting a lug of the same width as the tongue B on the shorter flange of the stop.

To attach the stop the wire is placed in the groove with its straight side in the bottom and the bend or lug E against theinner face of the tongue B. The lugsA A on either side of the recess F of the longer flange are then bent inward across the wire until they rest on the shoulders at either side of the tongue B, and are pressed firmly into position until they are wrapped closely about the body of the wire on either side of the bend or lug E. The body formed by thus wrapping the longer flange about the wire and onto the shorter flange is a spheroid whose greatest diameter is in the direction of the length of the wire; and it will be seen that by thus wrapping the two lu-gs'A A about the body of the wire they are made to inclose the tongue B and the bend E in such a way as to offer the greatest resistance to any endwise pressure. In fact, when set firmly in position this stop can be moved endwise only by tearing off the lugs A A, the tongue B, or the bend E. y

The stops are preferably of cast malleable iron, but may be stamped or forged if found desirable; but it is evidently necessary that they be of malleable material.

I am aware that malleable metal stops or buttons attached to check-row wires are already in use. I do not, therefore, claim such a combination, broadly; but,

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A stop for check-row wires, consisting of a strip of malleable metal bent to form two flanges of unequal length on opposite sides of a groove whose diameter is equal to that of the check-row wire, the longer of said flanges being formed with a central recess and the shorter with a central tongue corresponding thereto, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the wire D, provided with the bend E, and the grooved stop G, having two flanges of unequal length, the longer flange formed with a recess, F, and the shorter with a corresponding tongue, B, said longer flange being adapted to wrap about the wire, and said recess to receive the tongue B and bend E, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribin g witnesses.

DANIEL o. strovna.

Witnesses: R. H. WILES,

F. W. BRAINERD. 

